You are the director

If you think about it, you’ll find out that your whole life is formed by decisions. Not just decisions you make, but also decisions made by everyone around you. Everyone can have an influence on your life. But the biggest director of your life is you.

I’ll try to explain what I mean. Every day you make a lot of decisions. For instance, you decide what time you get up, what and when you eat, to leave now or five minutes later, even to make a left or right turn. And every decision will have an effect, without you even noticing it most of the time. Some effects are obvious, like when you leave at a certain time, you miss the bus. If you would’ve left just a few minutes earlier, you would’ve been sitting in that bus and you would have a different day.

There are several movies about this subject. The Butterfly Effect is one of them. It’s about a man who has the gift to go back to his past and alter his life. Every time he does that, he’ll see that his future turns out totally different. Just by changing a few decisions he made when he was younger.

As I said, it’s not just your decisions that rule your life. It’s a combination of several decisions made by different people, including yours. You know sometimes when something bad happened, they say that you were at the wrong place at the wrong time? Well, I think that is true, but still it was your decision to be at that particular place at that particular time. And so was the decision of the other person(s) involved at the occasion.

Now think about the quite big choices you’ve made in your life. Like deciding which school to go to, when to move out of your parents’ home, where to live and so on. And then imagine how your life might have been, who you wouldn’t have met and so on, if you would’ve made another decision. Yes, anything could’ve happened and your life would’ve been all different.

What you are doing right now is also a decision you made. Although I may have asked you to read my blog, it still was your decision to actually read it. You could have been doing something else this moment. But I’m glad you chose to read this.